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HP Placed in Leaders Quadrant in “Magic Quadrant for MFPs and Printers” Report

Tac Anderson — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:29:00 GMT

Mike Feldman
Vice President and General Manager
Enterprise Sales and Services
IPG-Americas

I wanted to share some exciting HP news stemming from a recent Gartner Report. HP is announcing its placement in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Multifunction Products and Printers. This comes on the heels of the MPS Magic Quadrant where HP was also placed in the Leaders Quadrant.

As a brief re-cap for those that might not be familiar, the Magic Quadrant positions vendors according to their “ability to execute” and their “completeness of vision.” These reports are highly valued in the industry, and we believe securing this position in the Leaders Quadrant reinforces our overall value to current customers as well as potential customers looking to select HP as a vendor.

So what exactly are the factors that Gartner assesses to qualify vendors for placement in the magic quadrant? Vendors are assessed on criteria including: products or services, sales execution and pricing, market responsiveness and track record, marketing execution, customer experience, offering strategy, business model, and geographic strategy.

We consider our placement as a leader to be a great accomplishment and again, I credit the hard work from our people at HP, our partners and our customers. We will continue to push ahead, setting industry leading standards and further building and strengthening our portfolio.

Be sure to keep us on your radar for more exciting news coming out of HP.

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Achieving Business Success for our Enterprise Customers

Tac Anderson — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:29:00 GMT

Mike Feldman
Vice President and General Manager
Enterprise Sales and Services
IPG-Americas

ImagePrint 2008

I’m happy to report that ImagePrint 2008 was a tremendous success. This year, we had a record number of enterprise customers and channel and solution partners in attendance. Not only was it a great turnout, but everything from the breakout sessions to the keynotes to the solutions showcase were first-rate and we received extremely positive feedback from our customers and partners alike. I have the privilege to work with many smart and talented people at HP and really saw my team engaging at all levels.

At every turn I was hearing from customers that this event made a difference and that they are going to take immediate action on building their Print 2.0 plans, which allow them to save money and improve their business processes just by assessing their imaging and printing environment. For those already down the path of optimizing their infrastructure and/or managing their environments, they wanted to extend their plans by improving their workflows and streamlining their imaging and printing operations.

Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s event.

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HP Color LaserJet CM6040f "Superstar"

Tac Anderson — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:27:00 GMT

Mike Feldman
Vice President and General Manager
Enterprise Sales and Services
IPG-Americas

We’re always honored when HP products are recognized with awards. But achieving AbsoluteVista.com’s SmallBizVista Superstar Award makes my day. A few choice excerpts:

"Very good service, very white-glove. Then again, exceptional service has always been a hallmark of HP in general, and the printer division in particular."

"In the use of the CM6040f, I looked for ease of use, speed, and versatility. I found it all. This MFC is years ahead of all supposed competitors in ease of use, value, reliability, versatility, speed, and functionality. In print/copy mode, having a printer spew out pages at a 40 page per minute clip in black-and-white or color is just impressive. As a network fax, the physicians were able to skip two steps in prescription fulfillment: printing out and faxing a script to pharmacies."

Click over to the review to read how John Obeto put the HP Color LaserJet CM6040f through the paces in AbsoluteVista.com’s MedikLab, which John describes as “a fully functioning and operational multi-provider physician’s clinic.”

Thanks, John!

HP Enterprise Advisory Council: Gathering Customer Feedback from Around the World

murradav — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:13:00 GMT

Mike Feldman
VP, IPG Global Enterprise Business

Just returning back from my trip to Europe. We met with 12 customers in Berlin, now one of my favorite cities, as part of our enterprise advisory council. The group of thought leaders represents leading companies in central and eastern Europe, as well as the middle east, Mediterranean and Africa. We had companies from Russia, Poland, Budapest, Romania, Czech Republic, Turkey, Greece, and others. Over the course of two days, they provided invaluable feedback on our strategy, direction, portfolio, and solutions.

The feedback gathered here impacts the key decisions we will make in the short term and long term. This council is one of many that we do around the world to keep a close pulse on our customers, market trends, and key opportunities. After the council, we spent two days in southern Germany with our enterprise imaging and printing region leadership team for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). We have a very strong leadership team that has been consistently growing the business and our market share in EMEA. It was great to see how our plans are coming together to continue this leadership in the market.

Next week I am off to meet my colleagues from EDS which should be very exciting. After that, it is another council meeting, this time in Banff, Canada. It may be time to sell my home and move in to the Marriott!

HP and Kofax: 10 years of printing solutions

murradav — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:20:00 GMT

Mike Feldman
VP, IPG Global Enterprise Business

Proving that the innovative solutions from HP and our partners are being noticed by our customers, we saw significant interest in mid-August when HP announced five new solutions to our imaging and printing portfolio. These were created by HP Solutions Business Partners Troy, Safecom, Captaris, Standard Register and Kofax, working through our successful Solutions Business Partner (SBP) program, which includes more than 100 partners offering 300+ solutions to date. We’ve seen great benefits with this program so far, and the momentum keeps growing! Check out the media alert for more information.

This week, we’re excited to present a podcast that HP and HP Solutions Business Partner, Kofax, have created in response to our solutions announcement. The interview is held with David Oldfield, director of business development for Kofax, and my colleague, David Laing, HP director of worldwide solutions and services. The two discuss the ten-year business partnership we’ve had with Kofax and the benefits to the solutions announcements that were made last week. It’s so interesting to hear exactly what these solutions are able to do, and amazing to think how far we’ve come in adapting technology to everyday business needs that are often overlooked.

Be sure to check it out at: http://h30431.www3.hp.com/?fr_story=27479cb60fa51777817730620d92c1071e9b4bf9&rf=bm

Reaching your green fatigue threshold? HP's committed to the environment.

murradav — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:37:00 GMT

Alison Graves
Worldwide PR Manager for HP’s Enterprise Imaging and Printing Business

Are you beating yourself up for infractions like pitching a soda can in the trash or forgetting to bring your own travel coffee mug into Starbucks? If you answered yes, then you might be suffering from “Green Guilt.” Are you skeptical of every green marketing claim and more interested in the U.S. presidential election and Jamie Lynn Spears’ baby? Then you probably have “Green Fatigue.” The New York Times reports the green fatigue threshold has been reached. PR and marketing professionals are trying to figure out what to do about it as experts worry the trend will soon die off. “After 18 months, levels of concern on any issue tend to drop off,” said Jonathan Banks, business insight director in Britain at Nielson, in an interview with the Times.

According to PR industry e-zine, Bulldog Reporter, “The problem boils down to misleading and exaggerated environmental claims and ties by advertisers that have consumers caught on an overgrown lawn of green skepticism.” For example, the Times points out that The Advertising Standards Authority received 561 complaints from consumers about green claims in 410 ads in 2007, up from 117 complaints about 83 ads the year before.

Where does that leave HP? Our commitment to environmental stewardship isn’t just a passing phase – in fact, it’s built into our DNA as a company, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were pioneers in recognizing that beyond making a profit, a company has a responsibility to enrich the businesses, lives and communities of its customers, partners, employees and stakeholders. Sure, like almost everyone else, we amped up our green marketing in the last year, but our claims are very real. They not only relate to our own commitment to the environment, but also our work to support our enterprise customers green goals. And speaking of our own commitment: Last week HP’s Corvallis site was recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency as exemplary steward, for making efforts, both internally and externally, to go above and beyond legal requirements for protecting the environment. The Corvallis site has reduced the total amount of electricity use by 6 percent, accounting for 9.7 million megawatt-hours, and invests in 4.2 million megawatt-hours of renewable energy per year. Congratulations HP Corvallis!

HP's Carbon Footprint Calculator is Now Available

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:41:00 GMT

Michelle Price

Manager, Worldwide Environmental Strategic Marketing, Imaging and Printing Group

On May 22nd, HP’s Imaging and Printing Group made a huge environmental announcement. As part of the announcement, we introduced the HP Carbon Footprint Calculator and indicated that it’ll be available at the end of June. Well, it’s now available. It takes about a minute to load. Check it out and let us know your thoughts.

The HP Carbon Footprint Calculator for printing helps you compare the carbon footprint of an existing sample printer fleet to that of a new, optimized LaserJet-based fleet. The calculator helps you understand how you can reduce your impact on the environment. It assesses printer energy and paper use, the carbon impact of usage and associated monetary costs based on geographical energy assessments.

If you are interested in learning more about the recent HP environmental announcement, click here or check out Mike Feldman’s blog about the announcement.

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